(November 12, 2021 at 9:59 am)T.J. Wrote:(November 11, 2021 at 11:56 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: What an interesting flair for understatement you have.
It's my understanding that people of the Middle Kingdom as well those living in The Land Of The rising Sun, still consider themselves to be the only civilised people on earth.
Systemic racism remains throughout the US and in my own country. In my opinion it will take at least another century to grow through it.
I could really only speak for what I've seen from my own country. I don't know enough about the rest of the world to comment, but what you said doesn't surprise me.
We all have a hard row to hoe.
In my opinion it's possible, even likely, that xenophobia is hard wired in human beings. I think it's likely that at one time there was an evolutionary advantage to fearing anyone not part of one's group. However, I feel fairly confident in saying this no longer the case within most post industrial societies. Seems to me that the time has come for us to fucking well get over ourselves.
We may not be able to control how we feel, but we can control how we behave. Behaving like an ignorant racist cunt is childish and is becoming slowly less acceptable. As I said, at least another hundred years. Eventually, it's my hope that differences in skin colour and sexual preferences/ identity may be used to describe people rather than to judge them.
